Dr. Corey Ippolito serves as the Technical Advisor for the EPSCoR project, and he is an Aerospace Research Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center who heads the Exploration Aerial Vehicle Systems (EAV) Laboratory. Dr. Ippolito’s research interests includes autonomy for unmanned aerial systems (UAS) operating in low-altitude high-density urban environments, intelligent control of swarming UAS for monitoring of active volcanic systems, decentralized adaptive control of flight dynamics for flexible aerospace vehicle structures, intelligent UAS autonomy for autonomous subsurface mapping of active earthquake fault zones, and intelligent decentralized control of smart environments. Dr. Ippolito has led several projects at NASA, including the SAFE50 Safe Autonomous Flight Environment for the Notional First/Last 50 Feet (SAFE50) Project, the Decentralized Control research project, Payload Directed Flight research project, Polymorphic Control Systems project, and the Intelligent Integrated Control Systems (IICS) for Smart Environments project. He has lead development of several NASA UAS flight test platforms, including several experimental multicopter platforms, the Swift UAS, the swarming Dragon Eye UAS, the experimental Sensor Controlled Aerial Vehicle (XSCAV), the Bumble-Bee UAV, and the EAV experimental flight test vehicle. His software innovations include the Reflection Architecture for embedded autonomous systems, the Perception Engine for physics-based simulation, the Self-Assembling Brokering Object (SABO) Architecture, and the Component Graphics Library (CGL). Dr. Ippolito has garnered several awards in recognition of his work as NASA, including NASA Group Achievement Awards for the UTM project, the NASA SAFE50 project, the NASA Atacama Desert PCS Robotics expedition, the NASA Award of Excellence for the Lunar MicroRover project, Award for Superior Accomplishment for his work in polymorphic control and flight demonstrations of collaborative UAV/UGV emergency landing, and recognition awards for his contribution to NASA outreach. Dr. Ippolito has a Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University in Electrical and Computer Engineering and an M.S. and B.S. in Aerospace Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.